In Moscow it has become easier to get to the Tsar’s mansion by metro

In Moscow, the reconstruction of the eastern vestibule of the Kashirskaya metro station has been completed.

Mayor of the capital Sergei Sobyanin notedthat the lobby is now integrated into the Big Circle Line. In particular, the mayor said that “this exit from the metro will significantly shorten the path to the Kolomenskoye museum-reserve.”

As you know, it is in Kolomenskoye that the wooden palace of Tsar Alexei Mikhailovich is located. In the 17th century it was a village near Moscow, now it is an area within the city.

In 1768, they decided to dismantle the palace, and in 2010, a life-size historical copy of the palace was erected on the undeveloped territory of the museum-reserve. Its facades and general layout repeat the construction of the 17th century.

Eastern lobby of the Kashirskaya metro station. 1980s. Photo: V. Bobkov / RIA Novosti

Kashirskaya is one of the few cross-platform stations of the Moscow metro; it opened in 1969. Trains from the Zamoskvoretskaya and Big Circle lines arrive here. Previously, Kashirskaya served trains on the Kakhovskaya Line, but then it was included in the BKL.

The architects of the Kashirskaya station and its ground-based vestibules are Nikolai Demchinsky and Yulia Kolesnikova. They are the authors of projects for many other metropolitan subway stations. Nikolai Demchinsky is also known as the author of the first metro diagram, in which each line was assigned its own color, and the diagram itself received a clearer geometric image.

“Geometric” diagram of the Moscow metro.

At the same time, the fate of the iconic architect for the Moscow metro remains a mystery. There is no answer to the question of how his life turned out in the 1980s, and neither the year of Nikolai Demchinsky’s death nor his burial place are known.